Contract Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

We are GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company and a leader in digital engineering. We help brands across the globe design and build innovative products, platforms, and digital experiences for the modern world. By integrating experience design, complex engineering, and data expertise - we help our clients imagine what’s possible and accelerate their transition into tomorrow’s digital businesses. We are seeking to hire an experienced contract Senior/Lead Azure Cloud Engineer/Consultant into our Platform Engineering Practice for a key client project. This role is based in our UK&I region. This contract will be inside IR35. 6months+ to start ASAP. About the role: • Contribute to and provide leadership qualities in the development and deployment of Cloud technologies with focus and expertise in Azure and GitLab Actions. • Work individually and as part of a team to carry out end-to-end implementation of Cloud based technologies (public, private and hybrid). • Undertake Cloud based solutions activities driving architecture, process and management best practice. • Identify risks within major designs and direct follow up remediation activities. • Advise and assist clients in developing Cloud technology roadmaps. • Regularly undertake complex and/or critical consultative engagements, to a senior management level. • Confidently scope complex and critical projects as well as (high level and detailed) deliverables. • Able to work in a fast-paced project environment and tight delivery timelines. Hands on experience required :- • Deploying/Managing Azure and/or Designing/Architecting Azure solutions. • Experience with Azure Devops (or similar CI/CD tooling). • Experience with IAC (Terraform or ARM). • Experience with GitLab Actions. • Work in an agile, collaborative manner and be adaptable to changing scenarios. • Ability to challenge the ideas and solutions of others respectfully and accept criticism. • Strong experience deploying Infrastructure-as-Code in an enterprise environment. • Architectural design and deployment skills for enterprise Cloud technologies (public, private and hybrid) into complex environments. • Excellent knowledge of high availability and backup/recovery solutions. • Excellent technical design, performance improvement and service alignment skills. • Experience around business critical and business continuity solutions. • Ability to lead on cloud initiatives and work to tight delivery deadlines. Ideally you will have one or more of the Associate/Expert level Azure certs, e.g. • Azure DevOps Engineer expert; Azure Cybersecurity architect expert; Azure Solutions architect expert. At GlobalLogic, we have a strong track record of successfully delivering ground-breaking Cloud, Data & Digital Transformation programmes and we have an international reach working with a wide variety of projects and customers. Our approach enables companies to “build the exceptional” and be fit for purpose in the 21st century. We hire based on personality, potential, and enthusiasm to make a difference, then we give you the tools and skills you need to follow your own path. You’ll benefit by gaining exposure to a wide range of tools and technologies that you can then put into practice and become certified on various Cloud (and related) technologies that will help you to develop your own toolkit.